Maintenance Oct. 27-28

"Sorry for any inconvenience" ... Today is my birthday. Of course SE would schedule a 24-hour maintenance and then extend it...... D:

:( Just think of the patch as a late birthday present or something.

No multiple-gigabyte download on a 60 kb/s connection can ever be considered a present. XD I'm gonna have to wait at least a day after the patch goes live just to download it... Wait, wait, wait... The SE fan is always waiting.

The extension was just an hour later than the planned 24 hours. Mostly to prevent some players from getting the new tomestones before the 1am reset and having a slight advantage over the majority of the players.

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@Tiamat your signature graphic just about made me rofl. XDDD

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

No multiple-gigabyte download on a 60 kb/s connection can ever be considered a present. XD I'm gonna have to wait at least a day after the patch goes live just to download it... Wait, wait, wait... The SE fan is always waiting.

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You're complaining about an announced update that will give us even more content. Get out of here.

So uh, happy birthday! ^_^/

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Originally Posted by Faiyez

You're complaining about an announced update that will give us even more content. Get out of here.

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The maintenance isn't for new content... It's to prepare for it. This is just a random FFXIV-less day that got longer the day before it commenced. D;

*Deep inside an underground lair*

Shadowy Figure 1: Hey look, it's Katsushiro's birthday today!
Shadowy Figure 2: Let's extend the 24 hour maintainence by an hour!
Shadowy Figures: *high five*

SE knew it was your birthday and decided to laugh at you.


In all seriousness they picked an arbitrary day and it's not their fault your connection is laughable.

O.O I knew it.

HOW OLD ARE YOU
this is important

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

The maintenance isn't for new content... It's to prepare for it. This is just a random FFXIV-less day that got longer the day before it commenced. D;

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heh? There's lots of new content. New job class, new gear, expanded housing, etc etc. Or am I not understanding what you mean?

Also they announced the time expansion a couple days ago at least, iirc.

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Originally Posted by SalemP

New job class, new gear, expanded housing, etc etc.

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Really? SE's description of today's maint made it seem like a preparation for 2.4 rather than 2.4 itself. At least something is actually happening.

"in order to accompany Patch 2.4"

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

"Sorry for any inconvenience" ... Today is my birthday. Of course SE would schedule a 24-hour maintenance and then extend it...... D:

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think thats bad have everyone telling you the patch is on the 21st (my birthday) FOR A WHOLE MONTH then getting told lol no next week :c

the maintenance is for 2.4 among other stuff which is why it so long.

@SalemP and to all those expecting to log in tomorrow and have access to all the 2.4 content...

"In order to accompany Patch 2.4, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds."
"Accordingly, data-handling capacity will need to be increased, and for this reason, we will be conducting database optimization with this maintenance in order to aid in load reduction and increase data processing speed."

So yeah, no new classes, gear, or expanded residential areas tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by DracotheDragon

think thats bad have everyone telling you the patch is on the 21st (my birthday) FOR A WHOLE MONTH then getting told lol no next week :c

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SE has something against people born in late October. A broken promise is worse than no promise. T.T lol

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

@SalemP and to all those expecting to log in tomorrow and have access to all the 2.4 content...

"In order to accompany Patch 2.4, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds."
"Accordingly, data-handling capacity will need to be increased, and for this reason, we will be conducting database optimization with this maintenance in order to aid in load reduction and increase data processing speed."

So yeah, no new classes, gear, or expanded residential areas tomorrow.

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Servers have to be brought down to patch the game. This maintenance is for both 2.4 *and* server maintenance, which is routine for large patches on MMOs. Also, you may want to look up the definition of accompany. ;P

"be present or occur at the same time as (something else)."

Even if the wording may seem a little strange, they announced at the recent Fan Festival that patch 2.4 would be live on October 28th.

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

@SalemP and to all those expecting to log in tomorrow and have access to all the 2.4 content...

"In order to accompany Patch 2.4, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds."
"Accordingly, data-handling capacity will need to be increased, and for this reason, we will be conducting database optimization with this maintenance in order to aid in load reduction and increase data processing speed."

So yeah, no new classes, gear, or expanded residential areas tomorrow.

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Lol first off Happy Birthday! Secondly, I'm not sure why you're so hellbent and convinced of thinking that tomorrow isn't 2.4 because, I assure you it is! Once the patch is up and people have downloaded it, and the maint. is over, people will be able to log on and enjoy 2.4 content to the fullest (assuming no game breaking bugs pop up.)

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

@SalemP and to all those expecting to log in tomorrow and have access to all the 2.4 content...

"In order to accompany Patch 2.4, we will be performing maintenance on all Worlds."
"Accordingly, data-handling capacity will need to be increased, and for this reason, we will be conducting database optimization with this maintenance in order to aid in load reduction and increase data processing speed."

So yeah, no new classes, gear, or expanded residential areas tomorrow.

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http://gamerescape.com/2014/10/19/fi...cer-live-blog/

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Matt Hilton: Yoshida, when is patch 2.4 coming out?
Yoshi P: 2014! October! 28th!

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

"in order to accompany Patch 2.4"

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You do realize that accompany means "to go at the same time or occur at the same time" right?

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Originally Posted by Lexia

the maintenance is for 2.4 among other stuff which is why it so long.

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It's not for the content, really. It's long due to the housing stuff that people complained about, so the database work and to handle more instances is why it's taking so long. Something like the 2.4 content, based on the notes alone, isn't a full day's work to implement.

Wow, well as long as you guys are sure I'll consider myself delightfully proven wrong. lol XD

So yeah, happy birthday again. ;^_^/

haha Thanks again Torunya, and thank you YamiMarik. And happy belated Draco. The rest of you can go back to 'hunting trolls' or w/e...

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

haha Thanks again Torunya, and thank you YamiMarik. And happy belated Draco. The rest of you can go back to 'hunting trolls' or w/e...

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I wasn't hunting trolls or trying to troll or anything. ;-; Just wanted to try and help you understand. The wording is pretty strange on the news post.

I feel you bro.

Sorry that it happened to be your bday. However, the patch looks really good. Once you get on and play some of the new content you'll probably forget about the time you waited to play.

lol I know Aethaeryn, it's all good. That word just gets thrown around a lot on this site, so I was answering anyone who might've thought my original post was 'trolling' (whatever the eff that is). Thanks for helping me clarify, Torunya and Marik were just the only ones to actually wish me a happy b-day. XP

It would be nice if we could start downloading the patch during maintenance, though. Having to wait until game servers go live to even start downloading sucks for those of us on crappy slow connections. Especially if the patch is really multiple GB, has that been confirmed?

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

It would be nice if we could start downloading the patch during maintenance, though. Having to wait until game servers go live to even start downloading sucks for those of us on crappy slow connections. Especially if the patch is really multiple GB, has that been confirmed?

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I just based that estimate in the last patches. I think the last one was like 1.7gb. ; ; But I COMPLETELY agree about getting to start the download early. Don't other online games have that as an option? Even FFXI, I think.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

It's not for the content, really. It's long due to the housing stuff that people complained about, so the database work and to handle more instances is why it's taking so long. Something like the 2.4 content, based on the notes alone, isn't a full day's work to implement.

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Obviously you missed the other part of the post "among other stuff" being that database work or what ever else they doing.

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Originally Posted by Katsushiro

I just based that estimate in the last patches. I think the last one was like 1.7gb. ; ; But I COMPLETELY agree about getting to start the download early. Don't other online games have that as an option? Even FFXI, I think.

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XIV does as well - except this one, due to the popular complaints about not being able to buy a house, is causing a complete change/upgrade in hardware and software, therefore you can't download the patch until they're back up and update pushed out to us.

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Originally Posted by Miitan

*Deep inside an underground lair*

Shadowy Figure 1: Hey look, it's Katsushiro's birthday today!
Shadowy Figure 2: Let's extend the 24 hour maintainence by an hour!
Shadowy Figures: *high five*

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

It would be nice if we could start downloading the patch during maintenance, though. Having to wait until game servers go live to even start downloading sucks for those of us on crappy slow connections. Especially if the patch is really multiple GB, has that been confirmed?

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YES.THIS.

Don't you dare tell me that I'm not going to be able to get my house because some jackwagon with a top-tier internet connection just flounces on and buys up a half-dozen plots across their alts while the rest of us are still struggling to even connect to the patch server!

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Originally Posted by Dree-Elle

YES.THIS.

Don't you dare tell me that I'm not going to be able to get my house because some jackwagon with a top-tier internet connection just flounces on and buys up a half-dozen plots across their alts while the rest of us are still struggling to even connect to the patch server!

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It's like the launch of 2.0 all over again! lol

Seriously, though, SE should have done what I originally thought was happening... One maintenance for the data expansion. One maintenance for the actual patch. This has just been (and will probably continue to be) annoying and confusing.

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Originally Posted by Tupsi

causing a complete change/upgrade in hardware and software

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Why are they turning off the machine that we download the patch from in order to update the game servers? Those should preferably be two physically separate sets of servers.

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Originally Posted by Moonleg

Why are they turning off the machine that we download the patch from in order to update the game servers? Those should preferably be two physically separate sets of servers.

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It's how SE has always been honestly lol, with XI..DQX...and now XIV. The update is likely on the lobby servers already but they're probably waiting to get everything back up and running. They did it during pretty much every update to the servers during XI's 12 years that accompanied a major update.